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Third temporary channel opens for vessels to Baltimore port after bridge collapse 04/20/2024 01:15pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� A third temporary channel for boats to enter and depart the Port of Baltimore has opened, expanding further shipping access as collapsed sections of the Francis Scott Key Bridge are salvaged before the span can ultimately be rebuilt. The alternate channel, located to the northe The US military will begin plans to withdraw troops from Niger 04/20/2024 12:03pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� The United States will begin plans to withdraw troops from Niger, U.S. officials said Saturday, in what experts say is a blow to Washington and its allies in the region in terms of staging security operations in the Sahel. The planned departure comes as U.S. officials said th Satellite image analyzed by AP shows damage after Iranian attack on Israeli desert air base 04/20/2024 10:29am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� An Iranian attack on an Israeli desert air base last week as part of Tehran's unprecedented assault on the country damaged a taxiway, a satellite image analyzed by The Associated Press on Saturday shows. The overall damage done to Nevatim air base in southern Isr Today in Sports - Chicago Bulls complete most successful regular season in NBA history with 72 wins 04/20/2024 10:00am • April 21 1904 ��� Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League) 1948 ��� Basketball Association of America Finals: Baltimore Bullets beat Philadelphia Warriors, 88-73 to take series, 4 games to 2. 1951 ��� Bob Davies��� two foul shots and Jack Coleman���s layup give the Rochester R Verstappen takes pole for Chinese GP to extend F1 dominance. Hamilton 18th 04/20/2024 05:24am • SHANGHAI (AP) ��� Max Verstappen of Red Bull has completed a Formula 1 double, taking the pole Saturday for the Chinese Grand Prix just hours after winning the first F1 sprint of the season. Teammate Sergio Perez will start alongside Verstappen on Sunday on the front row with Fernando Alonso of Asto Brewers bring 1-0 series lead over Cardinals into game 2 04/20/2024 04:01am • Milwaukee Brewers (12-6, first in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (9-11, fifth in the NL Central) St. Louis; Saturday, 2:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: D.L. Hall (0-1, 7.11 ERA, 2.13 WHIP, 10 strikeouts); Cardinals: Miles Mikolas (1-2, 5.82 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 15 strikeouts) BETMGM SPO As Russia edges toward a possible offensive on Kharkiv, some residents flee. Others refuse to leave 04/20/2024 01:56am • KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� A 79-year-old woman makes the sign of the cross and, gripping her cane, leaves her home in a quaint village in northeast Ukraine. Torn screens, shattered glass and scorched trees litter the yard of Olha Faichuk's apartment building in Lukiantsi, north of the city of Kharki Israel and Iran's apparent strikes and counterstrikes give new insights into both militaries 04/20/2024 12:39am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Israel demonstrated its military dominance over adversary Iran in its apparent precision strikes that hit near military and nuclear targets deep in the heart of the country, meeting little significant challenge from Iran's defenses and providing the world with new insights into b William Contreras drives in 2 runs for Brewers in a 2-1 win over Cardinals in 10 innings 04/20/2024 12:39am • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� William Contreras drove in the go-ahead run in the 10th inning and finished with two RBIs as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 on Friday night. ���He earned his money tonight,��� Brewers manager Pat Murphy said of Contreras. ���He���s going to earn a lot more, The drug war devastated Black and other minority communities. Is marijuana legalization helping? 04/20/2024 12:21am • ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) ��� When Washington state opened some of the nation's first legal marijuana stores in 2014, Sam Ward Jr. was on electronic home detention in Spokane, where he had been indicted on federal drug charges. He would soon be off to prison to serve the lion's share of a four-year sent Haiti's former capital seeks to revive its hey-day as gang violence consumes Port-au-Prince 04/20/2024 12:20am • CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) ��� They call it Okap, home to Haiti���s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries. Sitting on the shimmering north coast, the city of Cap-Ha��tien was abandoned as a capital during the waning years of the French colonial era and again when the Kingdom of Haiti fell after A man escaped Sudan's bloody civil war. His mysterious death in Missisippi has sparked suspicion 04/20/2024 12:14am • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� As a child, Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan and built a new life in Mississippi. This month, fishermen found the body of the 33-year-old Mabil floating in a river, prompting calls for a federal investigation into his disappearance and death. Mabil, who lived in Jackson with Previewing the 1st round of the NBA playoffs, which start on Saturday 04/20/2024 12:11am • Preview capsules for the first round of the NBA playoffs, which start Saturday. ___ EASTERN CONFERENCE No. 1 BOSTON CELTICS (64-18) vs. No. 8 MIAMI HEAT (46-36) Season series: Celtics, 3-0. Story line: Here they go again, sort of. The Celtics and Heat met in the East finals in 2020, 2022 and 2023 (H More than 2,100 people are evacuated as an Indonesian volcano spews clouds of ash 04/19/2024 10:07pm • MANADO, Indonesia (AP) ��� More than 2,100 people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island were evacuated Friday due to the dangers of spreading ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility of a tsunami. Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mi BNSF Railway says it didn't know about asbestos that's killed hundreds in Montana town 04/19/2024 08:10pm • HELENA, Mont. (AP) ��� BNSF Railway attorneys told a Montana jury Friday that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an asbestos-contaminated Montana town, one of the deadliest sites in the federal Superfund pollution program. Attorneys for the c